Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] was to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For Kylie , however there was to be no looking back . |
| 32 | Instead it was to be tailed and kept under observation , until the arrival of Curtis and his squad . |
| 33 | In a sense they were victims of a paradox ; they had chosen their middle way in order to retain their identity ; yet it was to be this very middle way which convinced others that they had relinquished it . |
| 34 | Yet it was to be under the new regime , for all the difficulties of the power-struggle at home , rather than under the strong rule of Henri II , that the French were to come in force to the aid of Mary of Guise against the Scottish heretics ; for the effective rulers of the two countries were now , after all , the two Guise brothers in France and their sister the regent in Scotland . |
| 35 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 36 | From the early 1960s onwards it was to be a trip that many young English radicals were to make . |
| 37 | It was therefore at Florence that agreement between Greeks and Latins was reached — though again it was to be of short duration . |
| 38 | That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party . |